Naples Greyhound Poker Room

Impressions: The limit selection is poor (mainly due to state law limiting the size of the bets), but the games are weak. The $1-$2 NL is often a fishpond; if you can stand the suckouts, it's a good game. Eve n the low-limit $2-$4 game is beatable, the players are more there to play bingo than poker.
Atmosphere: The chairs are nice, the tables are foam with a silkscreened cloth cover, which gives the table an interesting texture. However, the silkscreening (in addition to a betting circle) has advertising and the room logo, which makes it hard to see chips that land on the printed area. The chips are reasonably clean, although they're worn.
The room, as all non-Indian poker rooms in Florida, is non-smoking. Good for me (I hate smoke), but if you're a smoker, it's annoying. However, there is a balcony overlooking the racetrack, where you can smoke, just a short walk away.
Additionally, as with all pari-mutual poker rooms in Florida, the room has hours of operation; they're open noon to midnight, so no marathon sessions are possible.
The tournament half of the room is undergoing renovation, however, I note that there is a monitor visble for tracking their multi-table tourneys, showing blinds, time remaining, etc.
Dealers: I've seen better, but I've worse. The dealers are, for the most part, reasonably fast, and know when to push the rules and when not (ie, let the drunken fishy girls who are dumping gobs of money into the game make mistakes and get away with a warning, but the crusty old rocks get a bit less leeway). That being said, some of the dealers are quite slow (and I'm not talking about new dealers, these are folks who have been in the box for several years), and their procedures are pretty inconsistant (eg, one will make you pay a blind if you move more than 3 seats clockwise, another won't. Some will take in a called bet from the perimeter to rake it, some won't). There's no complaints per se -- they don't screw up, really, just it's hard to know what to expect and know what the rules are.
That being said, most of the players there could care less what the rules are :)
Food: There is cocktail service in the room, and there is a bar a short walk away. Food is also available on that level of the grandstand. I've never seen anyone eating in the room, but to my knowledge there is no rule against it. The drinks are a bit on the expensive side ($4.25 for a beer, for example), but service is quick. The food is pretty much what you'd expect to be served at the snack bar at a dog track -- hot dogs, pizza, lots of grease in place of flavor.
Service: I've never had to wait terribly long for a seat, be it at 3:00 on a Saturday, or 10:00 PM on a weekday -- the longest wait so far has been half an hour. That being said, some games are hard to come by (ie, the $1-$5 stud only runs sometimes, Omaha/8). Most of what you'll find is 4 or fewer tables of $2-$4, 3 or 4 of $1-$2 NL holdem and 1 or 2 of $2-$5 NL holdem ($1 ante, $2-$5 blinds, max $100 buyin).
Comps: No comps, but the room does have a royal flush jackpot -- hit the royal in diamonds with both hole cards playing and you win the jackpot, currently around $10,000 and rising by about $6,000 a week. Royals in suits other than diamonds pay $200, and a royal without both hole cards used gives you a logo'ed hat or shirt.

I went to the Naples-Ft Myers Greyhound Track poker room for the first time in 4 years last Saturday. My, how things have changed! The room was jumping, with easily 10 tables of live action going on one side and 6-8 tourneys running on the other. I made the 6th player on the $2-$4 hold'em list, so they called for the game to start; I bought chips from the cashier, as there appeared to be no chip runners to sell chips at the table (although the dealers obviously could, I prefer to not slow the game like that). Players did continually come into the game, eventually filling our table within roughly a half hour.
My table was comparatively weak, with one maniac, 2 calling stations, and the rest being what I would consider "average players." Most players bought into the game for between $50 and $100, so there wasn't a surfeit of short stacks playing (in fact, the only all-in bet I saw in several hours was mine, and that was because I'd managed to maximize a pot with the nut straight!). The players were often distracted from the game, as they were watching either the live greyhound racing, or the simulcast dog and horse races, to see how their pari-mutual bets worked out. The dealer often had to bring the player's attention back to the poker game; good from a poker playing perspective (hey, they weren't watching the game!) but kind of annoying since it slowed the game.
The dealing was professional for the most part, although as in any room there can be exceptions. The game's pace was a little slow, but that's mainly due to the players, not the dealers.
The house rake seemed a bit high, at 10% of the pot (rounded to thenearest $10) taken in $1 increments. Yes, that's right, they round off the pot -- if the pot is $46, they'll rake $5! Ouch! Still, because of the quality of play, even this stiff rake is probably beatable, as I walked out with twice my buy-in after pulling only two or three decent-sized pots (the players seemed to want to call too much, even when check-raised on the river).
The good: Weak players. Good dealers. Reasonable game selection. Low limits, if you like "social" poker.
The bad: Distracted players. High rake. Game limits are set by state law (NL games can't have more than a $100 buy-in, and limit games have a $5 max bet).
The verdict: I'll be back, and not only because it's close to where I live and work.
Tyler